19世纪中叶以来,作为日本近代化的开端,明治维新使日本率先成为亚洲第一个走上工业化道路的国家,也出现了以福泽谕吉为代表的一批思想者以及近现代教育的先行者。这是日本近代历史的重要转折点,从更宏观的层面来看,也是东亚乃至亚洲地域近代历史的重要转折。日本教育现代化与文化现代化的进程,尤其是“脱亚论”的出笼,间接或直接地造成了军国主义的武力扩张和整个亚洲的灾难性战争。但另一方面,不可否认的是,日本作为整个亚洲现代化的先锋,为东亚各国的现代性 Since the middle of the 19th century, as the beginning of Japan’s modernization, the Meiji Reform led Japan to become the first country in Asia to embark on an industrialized road. There emerged a group of thinkers represented by Fukuzawa Yukichi and forerunners of modern education . This is an important turning point in Japan’s modern history. From a more macro perspective, it is also an important turning point in the modern history of East Asia and even Asia. The process of Japan’s educational modernization and cultural modernization, especially the departure of Asia theory, has indirectly or directly caused the expansion of the militaristic force and the disastrous war in Asia as a whole. On the other hand, it is undeniable that Japan, as the vanguard of the entire Asian modernization, is the modernity of all East Asian countries